Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — Current Condensations. [ARTICLE]

Current Condensations.

Selfishness is self-destruction. A word spoken in due season, how good it is. ~ CaUtton isPoften wasted, but it is a very good risk to take. Better be ill-spoken of by one before all than by all before one. Occasions do not make a man frail, but they show wliat he is. The man who woiild reform the world needs to begin with himself. Beware of the man w r ho claims that any kind of a wrong is right It is not the clock that strikes the loudest which keeps the best time. It Ik because‘so many people see wrong that so many things go wrong. It has been discovered that there is something worse than a grocery store cigar: a joint cigar. There is a good deal of the loafer and dead beat; about every one who “visits” a great deal. When women find they are alone in a room, without any meil around, they pull up their garters. It is no kindness to a man to exaggerate the salary that he gets; his creditors may hear of it Tell your troubles to your pillow at night, and get the reputation of Jbeing a cheerful fool in the day- time. Marriage seems to give a woman a license and freedom to indulge in ■-many things she could not afford as a girl.

Our experience is that an artist who is not appreciated is just about as disagreeable as it is possible for a human to be. . ‘ All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; ’tis like spending this year part of next year’s revenue. Of late years a piece of hair cloth furniture in the parlor is considered as good a proof of respectable ancestors as an old silver teajxjt. Tile friends of Rev. Dr. David Riddle Breed, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of rittsburg, thmirtliat he may be elected moderator of the Presbyterinn General Assembly, which will meet next month. Rev. Frederick F. Sherman (Episcopal), a chaplain of the United States ‘navy, has resigned his chaplaincy because he has become a Roman Catholic. He Is a Bon of Judge Sherman, of the Superior Court of Massachusetts. It Is one of those facts not generally known even to Macaulay's omniscient schoolboy that it Is possible to travel by rail In Europe for a continuous dtstanceoTover B.WKjfl&f." Since tttP€)P tension of the Madrid and Cordova Trunk railway to Gibraltar this is now feasible. According to a London correspondent, up to the present time Mr. Justin McCarthy hns received something like £20,000 as his share of the proceeds of the sale of his “History of Our Own Time.” It Is said that nearly the whole of his £20,000 profit has been devoted to the cause of Ireland. Gen. Thomas L. CUngman, for thirty years one of North Carolina’s most distinguished citizens, a member of Congress, United States Senator, and brave Confederate soldier, hns applied for admission to the Confederate Soldiers' Home at Raleigh, being at tbe age of 83 homeless and penniless.